Sec. 15. Presidential waiver
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Section 407 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6447 ) is amended— in subsection (a), by inserting , for a 180-day period beginning on the date of the initial designation, after may waive ; and by adding at the end the following new subsection: It is the sense of Congress that ongoing and persistent waivers for any country designated as a country of particular concern for religious freedom under section 402(b) for engaging in particularly severe violations of religious freedom do not fulfill the purposes of this Act, and, given that promotion of religious freedom is a compelling United States foreign policy priority, the President, the Secretary of State, and other executive branch officials, in consultation with Congress, should seek to find ways to address existing violations, on a country-by-country basis, through the actions specified in section 405 or other commensurate actions, possibly including through the actions described in section 605, or by some other action that addresses the specific religious freedom violations of each country designated. .
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